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Texas Ranches & San Antonio Trails Experience the Thrill of Frontier Life in the Lone Star State Howdy! Pack your cowboy boots for an exciting vacation bursting with Texas flavor, frontier adventure, and Southwest culture. Visit four Texas ranches, including the gigantic King Ranch (pictured left), the LBJ Ranch where our 36th President was born and is buried, King Ranch and the Y.O. Ranch. Walk in the footsteps of Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie and other immortal frontiersmen. Settle in for 3 nights at our well-appointed hotel with rooftop pool on the banks of the San Antonio River, perfectly situated for exploring the city’s famed River Walk. Stroll among the tropical walkways, gourmet restaurants and rare boutique shops, and hop aboard a water taxi for easy transport and unique views throughout the city. Head up into hill country to stay at an authentic Mayan Dude Ranch in Bandera, the Cowboy Capital of the World! Enjoy Texas-style entertainment, a world-class dinner and 7 Days • 6 Nights • 11 Meals the down-home hospitality of the ranch’s owners, the Hicks Depart/Return: San Antonio, TX Family. Come morning, a cowboy-style breakfast cookout is CountryTravelDiscoveries.com/TST the thing to fortify you for an easygoing horseback ride in the hills or a stroll by the Medina River. Together, it’s a wonderful experience of the West, Old and New, that you’ll remember for years to come.

The River Walk For three evenings, we’ll stay along the famed San Antonio River Walk (top photo)—the number one tourist attraction in Texas. This is a charming and vibrant network of walkways along the banks of the San Antonio River. Lined by shops, restaurants, hotels and historical sites, the River Walk winds and loops under bridges as two parallel, park-like sidewalks. For a festive experience, we’ll hop on one of the many boats that ply the waters of Rio San Antonio. Elizabeth Dupree

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Day 1–San Antonio Welcome to Texas! This evening we’ll have a gourmet restaurants and rare boutique shops lining the river. private reception at the hotel. You’ll meet your friendly traveling Accommodations: Drury Inn & Suites Riverwalk, San Antonio. Meals: companions and your tour director. Accommodations: Doubletree B, L. Hotel, San Antonio Airport. Welcome Reception. Day 5–Johnson City/San Antonio This morning we’re off to Day 2–King Ranch/Corpus Christi Visit Brush Country the Lyndon B. Johnson Ranch and a ranger-guided tour of the Cowboys Church and learn about its significance in Texas. Our Texas White House (above right). You’ll love the rolling hills and next stop is big, even for Texas. King Ranch, with over 850,000 pastureland that LBJ roamed before becoming President of the acres, is one of the largest working ranches in the U.S. We’ll United States. We’ll continue on to Fredericksburg, a German settle in for a Texas-style barbeque lunch at a rustic camp house. community complete with gingerbread-trimmed houses. You’re Afterward, we’ll learn about the history of the ranch, home free to stroll Main Street to explore the specialty shops and to livestock including Santa Gertrudis and Longhorn cattle, enjoy lunch on your own. If you’re a WWII history buff, the thoroughbred and quarter horses, National Museum of the Pacific and more. Later we’ll head down War is a must-see! Tonight, enjoy the trail to the Gulf of Mexico all the wonderful amenities your where our hotel overlooks the TEXAS hotel has to offer. Accommodations: sparkling waters of Corpus Drury Inn & Suites Riverwalk, San Christi Bay. Accommodations: Best Mountain Home Johnson City Antonio. Meals: B. Western Marina Grand Hotel, Corpus Day 6–Mountain Home/ Christi. Meals: B, L. Schulenburg Bandera This morning we’ll drive Day 3–Corpus Christi/San Medina the back roads to Mountain Home Antonio After a hearty breakfast, Bandera San and the century-old, 40,000 acre Y. you’ll tour the legendary aircraft Antonio O. Ranch. Meet the “hands” who carrier USS Lexington. Would-be care for the ranch’s exotic game Mexico “top guns” in our group can feel Corpus animals. This afternoon we tour the excitement of a jet fighter in King Ranch Love Creek Orchards, pioneers the flight simulator, if they wish. Christi of the Texas apple industry. Only We’ll have a change of scenery six feet tall, the trees are small yet as we travel north to Fayette the fruit is delicious. Our finale County where we’ll find one of the famous Painted Churches is the Mayan Dude Ranch in Bandera—the Cowboy Capital of Texas. The term “Painted” comes from the elaborate faux- of the World! The Hicks Family has owned and operated the finished interior. Afterward, we’ll take a break and sample some Mayan Ranch for 50 years and will be delighted to welcome you fruitcake unlike any you’ve tasted before! Our last stop of the day to their authentic dude ranch with all the comforts of home. is exciting San Antonio, the “cradle of Texas liberty.” We’ll check Enjoy Texas-style entertainment after a world-class dinner. into our hotel on the banks of the famous San Antonio River Accommodations: Mayan Dude Ranch, Bandera. Meals: B, L, D. Walk—your home for the next three nights. Accommodations: Day 7–Bandera/San Antonio Today we enjoy a trail ride to Drury Inn & Suites Riverwalk, San Antonio. Meals: B, L. a cowboy-style breakfast cookout (top left). There’ll be eggs by Day 4–San Antonio Start this morning with a guided tour the dozen, hash browns, thick-sliced bacon, cowboy sausage, of San Antonio and tour Mission San Jose—known as the biscuits and grits, plus plenty of fresh-squeezed juice and strong “Queen of the Missions.” After dining at a festive spot in cowboy coffee. After breakfast, you can hit the trail for the hills downtown San Antonio, we’ll experience a spectacular view of or mosey down to the cool Medina River. Dude ranch horseback the city with a water taxi ride on the river itself. We’ll complete riding is single file at a walk—the best way to see Texas hill our day at the Alamo—as we walk in the footsteps of Davy country. Then it’s time to pack up. Our newfound cowboy and Crockett, Jim Bowie and other valiant men who will live in cowgirl friends will wave goodbye as we “giddy up” to the San Texans’ memories forever. Tonight enjoy the tropical walkways, Antonio airport. Meals: B.

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